'Vineyard' in the Bible
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard.
"When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed over or releases his livestock so that they graze in another man's field, he is to make restitution from the best of his field or vineyard.
You are not to gather your vineyard or pick up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. Leave something for the poor and the resident alien who lives among you. I am the LORD your God."
For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.
But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land a Sabbath for the LORD. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard.
And is there a man here who has planted a vineyard and not yet benefited from it? Let him go home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man use it.
"Don't plant two kinds of seeds in your vineyard. Otherwise, the entire crop will have to be forfeited, both the seed that you have sown and the produce from it.
"When you enter your countrymen's vineyard, you may eat the grapes to your satisfaction, but don't take any in a basket.
When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, don't go back a second time. What remains are for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow.
"You'll be engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You'll build a house, but you won't live in it. You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't harvest it.
You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't drink wine or harvest any grapes because worms will consume it.
Meanwhile, there was a man named Naboth from Jezreel who owned a vineyard that was located contiguous to King Ahab's palace in Samaria.
Ahab addressed Naboth and asked him, "I would like to plant a vegetable garden near my house. Please exchange your vineyard with a better one from me, or if you'd rather have cash, I'll buy it for its full value."
"I asked Naboth the Jezreelite, "Sell me your vineyard for cash, or if you want, I'll give you a better one in its place.' But he refused. He told me, "I won't give you my vineyard!'"
"Aren't you the reigning king of Israel," his wife Jezebel replied. "Get up, have a meal, and get ready to be happy. I'll go get you the vineyard that Naboth the Jezreelite owns."
When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she told Ahab, "Get up and confiscate Naboth's vineyard that he refused to sell you for cash. Naboth the Jezreelite isn't alive anymore. He's dead!"
So once he heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab got up, went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, and confiscated it.
"Get up and go down to meet King Ahab of Israel. He's in Samaria. Look! He's in Naboth's vineyard, where he's gone to confiscate it.
They reap fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person.
She evaluates a field and purchases it; from the proceeds she plants a vineyard.
Don't stare at me because I'm dark; the sun has tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me the caretaker of the vineyards, but I didn't take care of my own vineyard.
Solomon has a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers each one is to bring 1,000 pieces of silver in exchange for its fruit.
My vineyard belongs to me and is at my disposal. The 1,000 are for you, Solomon, and 200 are for those who take care of its fruit.
"The daughter of Zion is left abandoned, like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, or like a city under siege.
The LORD will go to court to oppose the elders and princes of his people: "You're the ones who have been devouring the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your own houses!
I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
"So now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, won't you please, between me and my vineyard.
What more could I do in my vineyard, that I haven't already done? When I expected it to produce good grapes, why did it yield wild ones?
"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
For the vineyard of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden in which he delights. He looked for justice, but saw only bloodshed; he searched for righteousness, but heard only an outcry!
For ten acres of vineyard will produce only one bath, and one omer of seed will produce only one ephah."
I am not angry. If only the vineyard could give me briers and thorns to battle, I would march against it, and I would burn it all up.
Many shepherds will destroy my vineyard. They'll trample down my portion. They'll turn my pleasant portion into a desolate desert.
"The kingdom from heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
He told them, "You go into the vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.'
They told him, "Because no one has hired us.' He told them, "You go into the vineyard as well.'
"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, "Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
"But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, "Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.
So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Now when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those farmers?"
They told him, "He will put those horrible men to a horrible death. Then he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at harvest time."
Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.
At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.
So they grabbed him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
"Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, execute the farmers, and give the vineyard to others.
Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.
Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went abroad for a long time.
At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.
"Then the owner of the vineyard said, "What should I do? I'll send my son whom I love. Maybe they'll respect him.'
So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!"
Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?